Hundreds of people have gotten sick from eating eggs contaminated with salmonella. Initially, 228 million eggs were recalled last week by the company, Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa. Now that number has jumped to about 380 million eggs.
Several states have received eggs from that company, and the updated recall list includes: California, Colorado, Minnesota, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Oklahoma, Oregon, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.
Check your refrigerators for the following food brands which use Wright County Eggs: Albertson’s, Farm Fresh, Lucerne, Ralph’s, Boomsma’s, Mountain Dairy, Hillandale, Shoreland, Sunshine, Trafficanda, Dutch Farms, Lund, and Kemps.
Salmonella is the most common bacterial form of food poisoning. Symptoms of salmonella include diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within eight hours to 72 hours of eating contaminated food. It can be life-threatening, especially to those with weakened immune systems. Completely and thoroughly cooking the eggs can kill the bacteria, but health officials recommend that people throw away or return the recalled eggs. For information, on the salmonella outbreak investigation, log onto www.cdc.gov/salmonella/enteritidis.
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